Windows games on a Mac???

Okay so I just bought the newest MacBook Pro. 2.2 ghz core 2 duo 2 gb ram 120 gb hard drive. I have bootcamp and did the parallels stuff. I can load windows and mac. Now my problem is;
1) I can't get Windows to detect the airport connection or the ethernet connection.
2) I've installed Sims 2 for windows onto the Windows parallel side and when I try to play it, it tells me that it doesnt detect a graphics card that supports direct X 9.0 or sometime. Now I'm thinking, "shouldnt my graphics card be good enough being that I just bought this Macbook Pro [from a retail Apple store]"
Any ideas or solutions??

I received a reply for a ? similar to this by posting to the Parallels forum. I was told that Parallels supports DirectX 8.1. However, someone else posted that they loaded v. 9.0. Register in the Parallels forum (http://forums.parallels.com) to post questions. One of the posts discussing this topic is: http://forum.parallels.com/showthread.php?t=12428&goto=newpost.
Hope this helps. I haven't found time to finish getting games to work yet. Let me know how u do.

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